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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
From WSJ: "The Grim Forecast for 2009 Wedding Spending"
This just in from The Wall Street Journal::
"Bridal shopping season is just around the corner, following the bump in engagements that happens on Valentine's Day. But this year, designers of wedding gowns and accessories are expected to take a hit. Sales of wedding gowns in the U.S. are expected to decrease 2.8% this year, compared with 2008, to reach $973 million, according to a new projection by Los Angeles-based market-research firm IBISWorld, which compiles its estimates based on reports from retailers' and manufacturers' industry groups. While the sales drop isn't as large as the 4.2% decrease the wedding dress category saw in 2008, it represents a continuing decline in an area that had seen steady growth since at least 2001, says Toon van Beeck, a senior industry anylyst for IBISWorld.
He notes that the average amount spent on a wedding is expected to drop 8% in 2009 to reach $20,000—just two years ago, in 2007, the average amount that a couple spent on a wedding was $30,000.
"This year, the economy will play a big role" in wedding planning, Mr. van Beeck says, predicting that wedding spending will also likely be affected by couples who postpone their plans "so the ceremony can be done when the financial time is right."
Other areas of the industry that are expected to take a hit include engagement rings and the hiring of wedding planners. Couples getting married in 2009 are expected to spend $785 million on hiring wedding planners, representing a decrease of 4.2% from the 2008 figure, Mr. van Beeck says. In 2008, the drop in spending on wedding planners was only 1.7%, he says. "Many of the 2008 weddings were already booked and paid for," he says. But "for 2009, people were able to mitigate this cost, hence the steeper decline."
There is, however, one small bright spot in the wedding industry business: Rentals. For several years, spending on wedding gown rentals had held steady at about $40 million each year. This year, however, spending on rented gowns is expected to rise 7.5% to reach $43 million."
3 comments:
- AmyJean {Relentless Bride®} said...
I was already on this trek of really trying to budget and save money... but with the economy, it looks like i may have to tighten up a bit more :-/ Either way, nothing will ruin the fun of planning and the day of... not even a bad economy :)
- February 11, 2009 at 11:09 AM
There's two way to look at this info. One one side it is depressing and scary. On the other hand you can view this as an opportunity to focus on what you're good at, focus on delivering true value to your customers. After all, if it's bad, it's bad for everybody and if you have a good business, you'll emerge stronger at the other end of this.
- February 11, 2009 at 8:53 PM
I agree with Olivier. True value is a good way of putting it. In my mind, in this business, true value lies in great customer service. Especially in the photography business... we spend the whole day with the bride/groom, and if we give a bride/groom a one-of-a-kind experience, that's what is going to elevate us above the current economy. Thanks for the post Rebecca!
- March 14, 2009 at 1:26 AM


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Joseph Y. Jeanes II to Rebecca S. Johnston and Elisabeth A. Angus, condominium unit at 1243 Cedars Court, $62,500.
Gregory P. Thomas and Veronica Price-Thomas to Alan W. Worsley and Jessica M. Frazier, 2736 McElroy Drive, $162,000.
Lynda Fisher and Scott Sunior to Gregory M. Weiss, 1612 Meridian Street, $119,000.
Thomas G. and Kristen M. Vandenberg to Ryan P. Ross and John T. Looney, 1216 St. George Avenue, $189,900.
Lars Larsen to Carolyn E. Easterlin, 428 Moseley Drive, $169,800.
Nelson R. and Allison M. Morris to Steven C. and Kathy A. Braden, 800 Elm Street, $111,000.
Arthur M. Feiner to Heide R. and Christopher W. Shaner, 216 Little Graves Street, $69,000.
V.R., Carroll P., and Mary G. Shackelford, and Kem S. Courtenay to Elizabeth G. and David F. Cooke II, 2004 and 2006 Lewis Mountain Road, $180,000.
Page P. Marshall, Roberta P. Smith, and Rebecca Weiss to A. Ward and Sallie V. Sims, four lots on Mason Lane, $175,000.
Sumner Brown to Colleen M. Kovac, 883 Locust Avenue, $317,500.
Maureen M. and Joseph M. Karch Jr. to Robert K. Duggan, 106 Leigh Place, Willoughby, $154,000.
Evelyln E. Evans to Charles D., Belt, and Judith Anne Quick and O.Q. and Madeline Quick, 1223 Cherry Avenue, $149,500.
Adilia A. Thompson to Tammy T. Cooper, 601 Elliott Avenue, $86,850.
Warren T. and Chloe L. Leback to Craig N. and Ann M. Hess, parcel on Westview Road, $125,000.
Katherine W. Swenson to Herbert L. Beskin and Sumner Brown, 1107 East Jefferson Street, $375,000.
Jennifer M. Springer to Michelle Yaros, 107 Danbury Court, $117,000.
Michael A. and Karen L. Gaffney to Weiqiang and Xiaohui Chang, 1979 River Inn Lane, Still Meadow, $334,500.
Paul M. and Karen M. Zavada to Paul M. Zavada, 24.746 acres at 5345 Alberene Road, North Garden, pursuant to separation agreement.
David J. and Amy H. Rose to John C. and Doreen C. Giordano, 576 Whitcover Circle, $127,500.
William F. Locke-Paddon, Trustee, to Loraine R. Blackburn, 200 Rivanwood Drive, $362,000.
Randolph and Charlotte W. Maupin, Trustees, to Mara M. and James R. Kennedy Jr., 17.963 acres at 2285 Stillhouse Creek Road, Afton, $275,000.
Thomas D. and Margaret S. Devila to John K. and Terri M. Voight, 665 Windrif Drive, Earlysville, $254,000.
Preston O. Stallings to Fluvanna Land and Development, three parcels totaling 6.80 acres, $950,000.
Thomas A. Jones and Cassandra H. Jones-Garrison to Charles H. Simmons, 2.004 acres at 3625 Stockton Road, $164,000.
James B. Spence to J. Samuel and Beth S. Pope, 783 Filly Run, $237,900.
Michael and Dena Armstrong to Jil Yao, 1681 Royal Oak Court, Mill Creek, $133,500.
Anne G. Atkinson-Fields to Jin Zhong Li and Wei Yao Lui, 594 Shady Lane, $209,900.
John E. and Teresa S. Brimm, Trustees, to Nancy J. Lemmon, 3064 Darby Drive, Keswick, $350,000.
Kelly K. Donovan to Jennie L. Flora, 3212 Gateway Circle, $169,900.
Southland Homes Inc. to Donald F. and Catherine M. Buhle, 2245 Oak Ridge Court, Bentivar, $583,865.
Bernard C. and Martha L. Terrill to Thomas L. Calloway and Wesley S. Carter, 751 Country Green Road, $42,500.
Sanddra C. Palumbo to Peter A. and Elizabeth H. Maillet, two lots at 306 Ednam Drive, $850,000.
Sharn L. and Ella L. Perry to Stephen A. Saunders, 1305 Wimbledon Way, $182,500.
Greenbrier Square Limited Partnership to Berkmar Crossing LC, 3.0602 acres west of Rt. 29 North, $3,025,000.
George Washington and Rosa Lee Green to Caroline Reaves, five acres at 3758 Monacan Trail Road, gift.
Matthew D. Holland to Paul C. Frederick, 1703 Royal Oak Court, Mill Creek, $129,900.
Melissa M. Russell to Fred M. Trainor, 19.15 acres on Walnut Ridge Lane, $255,000.
Fred M. Trainor to Gregory L. and Karen P. Wells, 1965 Bentivar Drive, $255,000.
Judith M. and John M. Herndon to Christine M. Reilly, 1.829 acres at 1859 Polo Grounds Road, $135,000.
Handbilt Homes Inc. to Jason Twedt, 33 Woodlake Drive, Four Seasons, $105,000.
RiverRun Investments to F. W. Powell, 1292 Clifden Greene, $101,500.
Nancy A. Jensen to Jeffrey R. Roberts and Diana L. Villalobos, 920 Quail Ridge Road, Earlysville, $220,000.
RiverRun Investments to Jerry A. Hartley, 1278 Clifden Greene, $96,500.
Frederick A. and Cathryn L. Hewett to Jamie E. Scott, 1576 Cool Spring Road, $110,000.
John L. and Kimberley C. Kennedy to Scott E. and Jennifer L. Craver, 4758 Clover Ridge Court, $176,500.
R.D. Wade Builder to Craig J. and Laura H. McCotter, 133 Grayrock Drive, $234,950.
Jeffrey S. Sprouse to Marshall S. Chase, 5466 Three Notch'd Road, Crozet, $129,000.
Crescent Development to Barry Meade Homes, parcel in Still Meadow, $85,000.
Burton Farm Land Trust to Barry Meade Homes, two lots in Deerwood, $96,000.
Laurie D. Sprouse to David G. and Tracy D. Aglio, 2368 Austin Drive, Briarwood, $121,500.
Traditional Homes of Albemarle to Michael D. and Treena T. Berg, 5.488 acres at 3960 Watts Passage Road, $240,850.
John G. Desmond, Trustee, to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., parcel in Dunlora, $60,000.
Hunter E. Craig Co. to Swift Run Inc., 307 West Rio Road, $177,000.
Woodbriar Associates to Jaime Goodsell, 4733 Bluejay Way, Briarwood, $184,540.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to the TSRM Group LLC, 2939 Magnolia Bend, Forest Lakes, $215,000.
John H. Robinson and Karen Tafoya-Robinson to Charles H. Anderson III, 25.14 acres on Howardsville Turnpike, Schuyler, $75,000.
Lucille P. Williams to Tiffany A. and Anthony M. Matos and Eden W. Miller, three acres on State Route 620, gift.
Susan G. McKenna to Richard L. and Deborah F. Pollock, 1251 Thistle Down, Keswick, $550,000.
Robert Hauser Homes Inc. to Lee J. and Helena M. Brady, 1161 Rustic Willow Lane, $224,000.
Edward A. and Martha B. Kingston to Courtney E. Arn, 978 Devon Springs Court, Redfields, $180,000.
Tracy S. and Lori A. Gibson to James M. Schaffner, 527 Whitcover Circle, Stonehenge, $134,000.
Craig Enterprises Inc. to Marilyn Styrna, 5545 Stonegate Lane, Western Ridge, $218,557.
Ruby L. Falwell to James R. and Lutie L. Morris, 3847 Bungletown Road, Schuyler, $65,000.
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Prudential Relocaton Inc. to Charles M. and Patricia L. Katz, 4855 Mechums River Road, $230,000.
T. Greer and Associates Inc. to W. Nathaniel and Erica L. Perkins, 12.173 acres on Brown's Gap Turnpike, $180,000.
Shenandoah National Bank to Diane L. B. Taylor, 4170 Garth Road, $276,088.56.
Deal of the week:
Lynda Y. Fisher to Mary Jane Briggs, 19 Farmington Drive, $900,000.

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Sole with Brown Butter, Beets, and Capers
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For my birthday this year, my husband Mr. English took me on a weekend escapade to the great white north. Only Stockholm wasn't particularly white—in fact, it was warmer than it was in London. But it left me breathless from the whirlwind of windswept, steel-watered lakes; sleek, angular design; and food that was exactly as I'd pictured it: a tangle of land and sea, with a Germanic flair, but made charmingly distinct by unexpected combinations of ingredients, of spices, of attitude.
I had many great meals. Reindeer salami. Wild boar sausages with knodel. Gravlax and cottage cheese. The most refreshingly not cloying cinnamon buns. And, of course, Swedish meatballs replete with creamy gravy, lingonberries, and pickles. I ate from morning to night, but the lunch on the day of my birthday, held at the iconic seafood restaurant Lisa Elmqvist in the famed indoor food market Östermalms Saluhall, was one to never forget.
As a seafood fanatic, I wasn't sure how to tackle the many-paged menu plus specials board, but somehow I'm convinced I chose the best thing in the house: a whole lemon sole, cooked meunière-style in brown butter, and served positively swimming in it, topped with a fine brunoise of beets and capers. On the side were simple boiled potatoes with dill, which were promptly dunked in the fishy, lemony brown butter. What elevated it from the typical French meunière was the cleverness of the topping. The sweetness of the tiny specks of beet was countered by the saltiness of the capers, and both cut through the richness of the butter and roughened up the edges of the high-end, gold-class fish.
It was wonderful, in the true sense of the word, in that it filled me with wonder. All the more so when I looked down to see that, after an entire weekend of reindeer salami and cinnamon buns, I had managed to finish the whole thing—for lunch. This is my version, to remind me of my travels.
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I didn't watch the ESPY's, but I guess she won one. What I thought was funny was all the chatter on Twitter about her. The consensus from most men is they would love to be with her, but at the same time she scares them to death.
Ronda Rousey
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Posted 16 July 2015 - 02:40 PM
I don't watch it either, it's a two-three hour infomercial for ESPN/ ABC. Rousey has a big male and female audience and is probably the most recognizable MMA fighter there is. ESPN is simply greasing the skids on building an audience for themselves. Also remember that Rousey's in her 15 seconds of fame. That's a very short lived career, she's going to quickly be moving into movies and television. She'll be the female version of The Rock. Hollywood, here she comes!
Posted 17 July 2015 - 05:14 AM
Seems Cardale Jones made an impression on her.
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Giving a damn: We made note of Ellen's powerful words last week after the disturbing rash of suicides among LGBT youth. The nation has banded together in a variety of ways, including the We Give a Damn project that was launched by the True Colors Fund. This past Sunday night, activists held a candlelight vigil in Washington Square Park in New York City. Actor and blogger, Andrew Kennan Bolger, documented the evening on video. More to watch: We Give a Damn has a few of their own videos, featuring some of our favorite big and small screen faces – among others. Check them out. Plus: Zachary Quinto says (Tweets?) the right thing after 50 Cent runs his mouth again.
Commercial offerings: There's plenty to see on YouTube if you go and type in 'tennis' in the search bar and sift through the many (dozens? hundreds?!) of homes for sale that happen to include tennis in their property in one way or another. One good find we had this week was an old Heineken commercial that hadn't crossed our path before. Watch the video – camera tipping and all – here. Meanwhile, we found the newly-released Australian Open commercial (below), tagged "A Whole New Level" via the ladies over at OntheBaseline. None other than Ms. Sam Stosur makes five appearances in the 31-second clip. Joining Serena, Roger and Rafa as the faces to be seen at the AO 2011.
The injury diaries: The injured Justine Henin is set to test the competitive waters in an exhibition against Kim Clijsters in Antwerp on December 9th. Things aren't as peachy for Robby Ginepri, who broke his arm in a biking accident and will be out of the game for the rest of the season. We're hoping for a Sam Querrey kind of return for the current world no. 118… not a James Blake kind of return.
Tennis shavings: Things are feeling a bit more Blake than Querrey over at NYC-based Tennis magazine. The publication announced earlier this week that they would cut four of nine editorial positions and begin outsourcing most of its art and photo work, focusing more in-house on Tennis.com. The magazine recently shuffled Sarah Unke from her role on the print side to be online editor following the departure of Abigail Lorge. It's unclear who is still calling Tennis his or her work home, though assistant online editor Ed McGrogan posted an ESPN blog item earlier today. 10tenmedia, a New York creative firm, will handle much of the mag's print design.
Body games: Former Tennis cover girl Anna Kournikova made an appearance on the small screen on NBC's "Biggest Loser" last night. Kournikova served up some motivation for the contestants, and they seemed to inspire her, too. ESPN the Magazine hits newsstands this week with their annual "The Body Issue." The mag always chooses several different covers to print (six this year), and wheelchair tennis queen Esther Vergeer got the nod for one of those covers in this cover print. The US women's water polo team also has a cover, as does golfer Camilo Villegas (yeah, we've never heard of him either).
More of short balls, including a giggling Roger and an all-inclusive short(er) balls, after the cut.


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News Archives - 2012
Practicing "I have a dream" and schools of citizenship
By Harry C. Boyte
Today, on Martin Luther King Jr.'s holiday, I've been thinking about the March on Washington and how much its citizenship message is relevant.
In the summer of 1963, my father, Harry George Boyte, went on staff of King's organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. At his urging I hitchhiked across the country, arriving in Washington the day before, August 27, 1963, on my way to Duke as a freshman in the fall. I lay in a sleeping bag on the floor of his hotel room. Early in the morning, I heard King's booming voice in a nearby room, practicing "I Have a Dream."
It was an electric moment. The message took on added depth and power as the day unfolded. "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred," King thundered. The march's program notes, issued in the name of March leaders but most likely written by organizer Bayard Rustin, conveyed a similar message, calling people to rise to a larger citizenship despite whatever justifiable anger many might feel. "In a neighborhood dispute there may be stunts, rough words, and even hot insults. But when a whole people speaks to its government, the dialogue and the action must be on a level reflecting the worth of that people and the responsibility of that government."
As Charles Euchner describes in Nobody Turn Me Around, subtitled a "people's history of the 1963 March on Washington," the March's citizenship message channeled a movement culture which had incubated for years in local "schools of citizenship" on college campuses and in beauty parlors, church basements and nonviolent training workshops. There, people developed the sobriety of citizens, the ability to put aside immediate impulses for the larger work, to "keep our eyes on the prize" in the words of the freedom song. I saw this process again and again as I worked in the Citizenship Education Program of SCLC over the next two years. All this added up to a vast process of citizenship education, which helped to wake up the nation after the somnolent, consumerist, privatized 1950s.
Today, we need a similar re-awakening. Private pursuits have taken the place of public ones. What one owns is too often the measure of one's value. Our citizenship declines while we are entertained as spectators, pacified as clients, and pandered to as customers. We need again to call forth America's democratic genius of a self-reliant, productive, future-oriented citizenry. And once again we need citizenship schools, for the new century.
Harry C. Boyte, Director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at Augsburg College, is coordination of the American Commonwealth Partnership, which supports "democracy colleges for the 21st century" as schools for citizenship.
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Melissa Melton
January 4, 2012
In the 20th century, the greatest unnatural killer of human beings was not plague, cancer, or accidents. It was democide: death by government.
Governments murdered more people in the last 100-plus years than any other killer in existence on record. Statistics vary between 250 and 300 million dead depending on the source, but these counts typically only include civilian casualties and are underestimated. With military deaths added, the numbers soar much, much higher.
As illustrated in Alex Jones' "New World Order: Blueprint of Madmen" (below), here are just a few countries that have slaughtered millions in the past century:
China (PRC) (1949 – 1987) — 76,702,000 people killed.
USSR (1917 – 1987 ) — 61,911,000 people killed.
Western Colonialism (combined) — 50,000,000 people killed.
Hitler's Germany (1933 – 1945) — 20,946,000 people killed, including their own population.
Japan (1936 – 1945) — 5,964,000 people killed.
Pol Pot's Cambodia (1975 – 1979) — 2,035,000 people killed. Pol Pot was funded by U.S. government.
The death toll is so big, the horrifying devastation is hard to fathom. The list of serial killing governments goes on and on. For more statistics on governments murdering their citizenry, visit the University of Hawaii's democide webpage.
What did many of these slain people have in common? They were disarmed. In many cases, bans on firearm possession left the majority of guns in the hands of a state who then turned its weapons against its own people.
Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mao all banned private gun ownership. As the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) points out, "When the civilians are defenseless and their government goes bad […] thousands and millions of innocents die." JPFO has made two videos underscoring the gun control agenda targeting vulnerable groups, then enslaving and murdering them following disarmament (see here and here).
How many of those people probably thought to themselves it would never happen there or to them and their families? But it did.
For a rundown of how gun control — or the idea that government controls all the guns while the people are disarmed and helpless against it — visit the JPFO website.
The 2nd Amendment reads, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The phrase "shall not be infringed" is as straight forward as it gets. The reason this Amendment was written had nothing to do with hunting and everything to do with protecting ourselves from a tyrannical, out of control government and its standing army.
In the wake of the tragic Connecticut school massacre, we have witnessed an all out war on our 2nd Amendment rights, culminating in Senator Dianne Feinstein calling for draconian anti-gun legislation which Obama says he will put his "full weight" behind.
These laws would not have stopped the Sandy Hook massacre, considering the guns were stolen, used in what was supposed to be a gun-free zone which was first broken into, and Connecticut already had an assault weapons ban in place.
Yet, this tragedy is being used as a pretext to confiscate our guns and subvert our 2nd Amendment. History has shown that disarming citizens is tantamount to democide.
History is repeating itself.
Recently, a video called "Demand a Plan" featured celebrities hypocritically calling for the state to disarm the American people. This piece of anti-gun propaganda was produced by the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. As Infowars has reported, gun-grabber Bloomberg exploited the Aurora theater shooting to fit his disarmament agenda, and he has now openly demanded Obama sidestep Congress and the Constitution to dilute our 2nd Amendment rights because of the Sandy Hook shooting.
A listener posted a response video pointing out the hypocrisy of these same stars getting paid big money to play movie roles where they blow people away with guns all the time.
We at Infowars decided to make our own video — "Demand a Real Plan":
Here is a special update from Alex Jones announcing a new $5,000 "Demand a Real Plan" video contest:
(Stay tuned to Infowars.com for rules and more details.)
To keep the 2nd Amendment demonization campaign going, the White House has even posted a webpage for people to "Share Your Thoughts on Reducing Gun Violence" following the Connecticut shooting.
Why not share with them what history shows always seems to happen when citizens are disarmed by their governments?
We have to act to protect our rights now. Contact your local Congresspeople today and tell them to uphold the Constitution and protect our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms!
Contacting the Congress.org database
U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
So remember, when Bloomberg trots out a bunch of hypocritical celebrities in a trendy public service announcement to tell you to give up your guns, first ask yourself this: How many people will government kill this century? This year?
Do you want to let the monster under your bed render you helpless before it eats you?
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who didn't." — Ben Franklin
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms…" — Samuel Adams
"To disarm the people is the most effective way to enslave them." — George Mason
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According to Clem at the Linux Mint Blog, version 9 of Linux Mint will soon be ready for public release. Here's what Clem says about it:
Looking at the remaining bugs and considering the amount of testing needed I would say we're about 1 week away from releasing Linux Mint 9. I know most operating systems and distributions stick to release dates and announce them well in advance but I see no reason not to release something once it's ready …
Clem stated this on Monday of this week, so we can expect to see some action shortly after the coming weekend. Last week, our Linux guru, Pallab, gave us a quick run-down on the features we can expect to see in the new Mint. I enjoy using Mint and nearly always keep a copy of it on home machines. Here's a snapshot of version 8 on my netbook:
Here's a video showing off the look and feel of Mint 9.
The major change for Mint 9 will be that it's running on top of the new Ubuntu 10.4. Mint is one of the best versions of Linux for new users because it's ready to use as soon as it's installed. Ubuntu is often missing multimedia codecs, players such as Adobe Flash and support for some types of movie files.
New users will also have no problems figuring out the program menus which are similar to those used in Windows. When my nieces and nephews drop in for a visit, I often make them use Mint to surf the net. That way, I don't have to worry about my PC getting infected with the latest Facebook or MySpace bugs. It's bullet proof! (kid proof)
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Recent assaults at UVA prompt alert, questions
A hastily organized press conference to address three recent alleged attacks on UVA students may have raised more questions than it answered, as UVA Dean of Students Allen Groves and UVA Police Lt. Melissa Fielding admitted they did not know the identities of two of the three assault victims–- and couldn't be sure, therefore, if assaults had even occurred.
September 28, three days after new UVA president Teresa Sullivan's "Day of Dialogue" to address violence in the wake of the Yeardley Love murder, Groves sent a message to approximately 23,000 UVA email addresses cautioning students to be extra vigilant in the wake of the alleged ssaults.
According to Groves' message, the first incident was a sexual assault that took place at approximately 1:15am on Friday, September 17 near Chancellor Street. The female student was knocked to the ground and sexually assaulted by a white male. Two days later, according to Groves' email, at just after midnight on September 19, another female student was pushed into the pantry of an unidentified fraternity house by an unidentified white male. Hearing her screams, two friends opened the pantry door and the assailant fled. Described as a white male between 18 and 20 years old, approximately 5'11 and 180 pounds with medium length brown hair, he was wearing a t-shirt and khaki shorts, and investigators assert that the alleged assailant in these two incidents may be the same person.
In the other incident, a male student walking on Chancellor Street near the Bank of America building at 1:30am on September 18 was assaulted by an approximately 5' 10" black male, who jumped from a Ford SUV, punched the victim in the neck, and knocked him to the ground.
At Wednesday's press conference, Groves explained that while the male student had reported the incident through an online crime reporting portal, University officials were still trying to make contact with the women to determine exactly where the assaults took place and what had occurred.
Neither Groves nor Fielding knew the status of the investigations being conducted by Charlottesville City Police, who did not send a representative to the press conference. All three incidents occurred off grounds, and are therefore in the City's jurisdiction.
According to City spokesperson Ric Barrick, due to the "impairment" of the victim in the September 17 incident, "we are not certain there was an assault." The victim in the September 19 alleged pantry attack has not yet contacted police, says Barrick, who notes that police were "surprised" by the press conference and the media coverage.
"We understand that UVA takes safety on grounds very seriously," he writes in an emailed response.
Absent any information beyond his original message, Groves focused instead on the timeline between the alleged assaults and UVA's decision to alert students, a sensitive subject since UVA has been criticized over the years for being unresponsive to sexual assaults. (Hook stories include November 11, 2004's "How UVA Turns its Back on Rape," and the January 12, 2006 "I Harmed You: 21 years, 12 steps later, rape apology backfires.")
Groves says his message was sent on September 27, hours after the first student made contact for the first time with an administrator.
"We had enough information to go forward publicly," he said, explaining that administrators had spent several days trying to track down the alleged victims.
Groves and Fielding reiterated the safety message to students, cautioning them to be aware of their surroundings, to monitor their own alcohol intake, and to assist friends who are intoxicated and therefore more vulnerable. When in doubt, "Call 911," said Fielding, stressing that students don't need to believe they're dealing with a "dire emergency" to use the emergency number.
"We'd rather respond and discover it's nothing," said Fielding, "than be too late."
–-updated/rewritten 4:43pm and updated again at 5:37pm with response from Barrick
Original posting:
Within one week of new UVA president Teresa Sullivan's "Day of Dialogue" to address violence in the wake of the Yeardley Love murder, three assaults on UVA students have prompted an emergency message from Dean of Students Allen Groves.
According to Groves' message, the first incident, a sexual assault, took place at approximately 1:15am on Friday, September 17 near Chancellor Street. The female student was knocked to the ground and sexually assaulted by a white male. Two days later, at just after midnight on September 19, another female student was pushed into the pantry of an unidentified fraternity house by an unidentified white male. Hearing her screams, two friends opened the pantry door and the assailant fled. He is described as between 18 and 20 years old, approximately 5'11 and 180 pounds with medium length brown hair. He was wearing a t-shirt and khaki shorts.
In the final incident, a male student walking on Chancellor Street near the Bank of America building at 1:30am on September 18 was assaulted by an approximately 5' 10" black male, who jumped from a Ford SUV, punched the victim in the neck and knocked him to the ground. Police believe the crime was prompted by the victim's sexual orientation
In his message, Groves cautions students to be aware of their surroundings, and to monitor their own alcohol intake and assist friends who may be intoxicated and therefore more vulnerable.
A press conference on the assaults and on student safety is being scheduled for this afternoon.
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Thrown into a pantry? Really? That's assault, now?
The others, yes, those are assault, but being locked into a pantry? At a frat party? Are you kidding me?
There are two distinct kinds of assaults going on.. ones from within... drunken students who were raised improperly and criminals from the city who were also raised improperly.
The students can mostly be educated and prevented from their crimes by peer pressure and proper high profile low tolerance prosecution. The latter most probably have a rap sheet a mile long and should have been dealt with long ago. These folks need to be locked up and removed from society for as long as we can keep them away.
The costs of police overtime , prosecution, insurance payouts, mental health costs for the victims etc is probably less than incarceration.
Everyone on probation for any kind of violent crime should be forced to wear a GPS monitor. they are cheap and reliable.
AJ - sex offenders have it easier over the mountain in Waynesboro...case in point: latest conviction was plea barginned down to a "lesser charge" from raping a girl of under 13 to an unnamed charge. Sooooo...sentence - 10 years with all but one suspended....and this individual will PROBABLY (that's a quote from the article) be deported after release. Yeah, I'll hold my breath....commonwealth attorney and judges across the mountain are bleeding hearts....I could site other cases, but it'll just make ya madder!!
"Guns don't kill people. Bad people with easy access to guns kill people!"
get a life I think you're missing his point. Video games and other operant conditioning DOES desensitize users to real violence, which is a definite precursor to sociopathic tendencies.
The US Army is fully aware of this even if you are not.
Saying Video games creates killers is like saying, Pencils misspells words, Cars make drunk drivers, and guns kill people.
So called date rapes are the most numerous rapes on college campuses, and elsewhere in Western civilizations. The kinds of sexual assaults described above are very rare at UVa.
Didn't your mama tell you nothing good happens after midnight?
plus i have noticed that the number of people on the sex offender registry for the cville zip codes is very high as compared to the size of the city....for some reason lots of offenders are being attracted to the inner rt. 20/ i-64 corridor too.
saying video games creates killers is like saying eating big macs creates fat people, drinking creates alcoholics and becoming a politician makes you into a liar....
Not everyone who eats drinks or goes into politics suffers from the above mentioned afflictions but they are all some serious contributing factors.
There can be no doubt that a kid raised playing Grand Theft Auto will hve a slightly different outlook vs the kid who watched the Cosby show.
What else do you want U.Va. to do? They've already sent out warnings even though the cases weren't reported to them and occurred in the city. Why don't you complain that every jurisdiction in this country hasn't completely eradicated crime?
meanwhile, I am all for purging the sex offenders away from Cville...I wonder if local landlords do a check on criminal history... I know the mantra about sex offenders, they have served time for their crime, we shouldn't discriminate but I for one as a landlord wouldn't lend my home to a predator speacially the ones who have molested children; they can't be rehabilitated...lets start the movement in Cville...NO MORE sex offenders in Cville.
I feel terribly about the assaults, but it needs to be brought up the absolute crime of that Dean Groves wearing a Carolina Blue seater vest in that photo. Shame...
Booo, you have hit the nail on the head. one of the biggest failings of the human race is that we can see what's wrong with ourselves but as a collective organism are unable to stop the inertia moving us toward extinction.
UVA covering up rapes? Who woulda thunk?
Allow concealed carry on grounds, that might help. Students can legally carry on grounds but it is against school rules and will result in expulsion.
booo i agree...forget about the abusive households...what tranpires there...talking about normal every day families....parents are letting malls, porn, facebook, raise their children.
I told you so.
AJ, there is no doubt that our local jurisprudential system has chosen time and time again to NOT punish sex offenders to the full extent of the law. This could very well influence the rational decisions by sex offenders to relocate here, as well as be a factor as to why so many sex offenders are free in the local community.
Until we get local judges and local prosecutors that take these crimes seriously, our sex offender registry will continue to be well-populated.
Protecting yourself and those you love is YOUR responsibility. Too often the police aren't there in time, and too often civilians walk away rather than get involved. Except when I go into a bank or a government building, I am ALWAYS armed. Unfortunately for a lot of these young people, they think nothing bad can happen to them and they are open, friendly, not on their guard, and not nearly careful enough. It's a real shame some of them get such a rude awakening...or worse.
@jjmalloy "The kinds of sexual assaults described above are very rare at UVa."
Wrong. I have been reading about these kinds of assaults on women on or near the UVA campus since the 1980s, when I was a student here. There are several similar REPORTED occurences every year.
@RobertBlake92: "Except for on the actual grounds of UVA, where they apparently prefer their students to be victims..."
Whoa! Back up the stagecoach there, John Wayne. Victims of what? In case you weren't paying attention, none of these assaults took place on the UVA grounds.
Where is Sean, taking credit for being right about these folks all Spring and Summer?
Couldn't we have expected him to be on here ranting about how UVA covered things up, made local media do the same, and only spilled the beans after the blink on crime website put these assaults online a few days ago?
But even I have to ask - why on earth would they delay warning their own students that assaults have taken place, when and where?? Why was it not news in any of the papers or on TV - until now?
I can't imagine that after Morgan Harrington's abduction/murder and Yeardley Love's murder that UVA would stand up and make themselves heard. It's time to stop this cycle of violence on and around our campuses. Shame on The University for not securing and making safe it's campus and looking after their students. I would never allow a child of mine there. They continually turn their heads and refuse to believe this could be going on. Get a grip, UVA.
The answer to every freaking societal ill cannot be that we must arm ourselves to the teeth. Guns might not kill people, but irresponsible, drunken teens and twenty-somethings armed with a foolish sense of invincibility and a glock sure will.
I agree, people don't need to be armed to the teeth.
A high quality handgun and a 50 round box of ammo is enough.
From what I gather none of this is unusual for UVa. What's unusual is that they've chosen to talk about it. Previously they just covered things up, according to victims.
Also as time goes on, and successive generations of kids continue to be raised on violent video games and torture porn horror movies that typically depict women as pieces of meat that should be beat up, raped, tortured and killed, expect this sort of thing to be on the rise. Our society is churning out empty sociopaths by the thousands.
Ummm, no, the university reported the incidents after at least one student reported a crime to them.
Do you consider a sorority house "grounds?". This is where the rape took place. The attack in the pantry occured in a frat house.
The school didn't send a report to students until AFTER Blink published her article. Don't you wonder how she found out and yet the administration was in the dark??? Dig a little deeper.
You should read it her blog. Even Allen Groves has posted on her site.
@Gassy old phart: I read the article you cited. Thanks, very interesting. That pizza delivery guy, a former sheriff's deputy, displayed an extraordinary amount of self-restraint, WAY too much if you ask me. Except for on the actual grounds of UVA, where they apparently prefer their students to be victims, small 9mm's carried by a significant number of former sheep with CCP's would reeducate the wolves to think twice before mounting an attack.
I thought maybe Richard Smith (the UVa student, son of Fed Ex Chairman) had come back to town. After paying 1/2 a million for punching Kory (another student) I guess he wouldn't come back to town.
Has anyone noticed that a woman president @ UVA is pursuing this?
She would not have been admitted to UVA when she was going to college, because UVA didn't admit women then. Thank heavens someone else did.
And people ask what difference gender makes so long as someone's qualified? This would be the difference.
Goodness gracious, people. Isn't it time we stopped beating up the UVA administration? How many warnings need to be issued before young people understand that walking alone, anywhere, near the Corner, 14th, 15th, 13th Street, Downtown Mall, Barracks Road Shopping Center, Fashion Square Mall, etc., etc., is simply not safe. Not blaming the victims here in any way, but if you're smart enough to get into UVA, you need to be smart enough to use some commonsense. DO NOT WALK ALONE. USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM. My sons learned this in Cub Scouts when they were five years old.
Pizza Hut driver: Judge, Jury, Executioner...
An "Eye for a pie".
"Crime still occurs in Charlottesville?
You people are insane.
UVA is an AWESOME place for girls to go to school.
If you want to really know how this all came to the public eye, go to Blink on Crime's website. The university only notified the students AFTER she published an article about the rapes.
I wish the local media would investigate this deeper.
I looked at the timeline provided by Freak on Crime amidst her usual rumormongering. It looks to me as though the Charlottesville Police Department was investigating the case and in contact with the university, but the CPD kept saying that they didn't know if an assault had occurred. It's the CPD that looks incompetent in this case if a rape actually occurred, not the university.
SJones sure wrote like Kevin Gregory McNeill. I don't know what that means, though.
Where's S.Jones? Has anyone heard from him lately? There's a terrible rumor on Topix about him, would any of you all know if it's true?
shocked? great expectations ...
why it only seems like a less than a year ago, another girl was taken from UVA grounds, brutally raped and murdered and left in a field a few miles from campus with no suspects, poi, arrests, convictions, etc. oh wait ... at least UVA gets the most endowments and has a great football team.


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LAUREN FINED: Following what has been described as an air-rage incident aboard a John F. Kennedy International Airport-bound Delta Air Lines flight Monday, Jenny Lauren was fined 2,000 euros, or about $2,700 at current exchange, during a hearing Wednesday in Shannon, Ireland.
But the jewelry designer's headaches might not end there. The two-hour delay of rerouting the plane to Shannon to have Lauren removed and subsequently arrested cost Delta nearly $40,000. Citing a report from Wednesday's hearing, Jim Molloy, sergeant in the Shannon Garda press office, said the airline had to pay $17,000 for additional fuel, $17,000 for accommodations for passengers who missed their connecting flights and $5,000 for landing, handling and maintenance fees for the unexpected stop at Shannon Airport.
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Lauren and representatives at her company did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday, nor did the Shannon-based solicitor, Sharon Curley, who represented her Wednesday at Killaloe District Court.
Delta did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday.
The 41-year-old Lauren, was held overnight in custody Monday at the Shannon Garda Station. Facing three charges — being intoxicated aboard a flight; offensive behavior on a flight, and exercising threatening, abusive and insulting behavior — Lauren pleaded guilty to two and was convicted under the Air Navigation and Transport Act of 1973, Molloy said. Her flight was rerouted to Shannon after the Delta crew determined that she was intoxicated to the extent that she could cause danger to the 200-plus passengers or crew.
Regarding Delta's $17,000 loss for passengers' hotel bills, Molloy said 70 stranded passengers required one-night stays and 27 needed two-night stays due to missed connecting flights.


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Annual, biennial, perennial herb (rarely shrub, tree), often from taproot
Stem often ± scapose, generally ribbed, hollow
Leaves basal and generally some cauline, generally alternate; stipules generally 0; petiole base generally sheathing stem; blade generally much dissected, sometimes compound
Inflorescence: umbel or head, simple or compound, generally peduncled; bracts present (in involucres) or not; bractlets generally present (in involucels)
Flowers many, small, generally bisexual (or some staminate), generally radial (or outer bilateral); calyx 0 or lobes 5, small, atop ovary; petals 5, free, generally ovate or spoon-shaped, generally incurved at tips, generally ± ephemeral; stamens 5; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 2-chambered, generally with a ± conic, persistent projection or platform on top subtending 2 free styles
Fruit: 2 dry, 1-seeded halves that separate from each other but generally remain attached for some time to a central axis; ribs on each half 5, 2 marginal and 3 on back; oil tubes 1several per interval between ribs
Genera in family: 300 genera, 3,000 species: ± worldwide, especially temp; many cultivated for food or spice (e.g., Carum, caraway; Daucus; Petroselinum); some highly toxic (e.g., Conium). Underground structures here called roots, but true nature remains problematic. Mature fruit generally critical in identification; shapes generally given in outline, followed by shape in X -section of 2 fruit halves together.
Annual, biennial, perennial herb, taprooted or fibrous-rooted from horizontal rhizome
Stem prostrate to erect, hollow, rooting from lower nodes or not, glabrous
Leaf: blade oblong to obovate, 1-pinnate or ternate-pinnately dissected, leaflets paired, lanceolate or ± round (segments linear)
Inflorescence: umbels compound, peduncled or not; bracts, bractlets conspicuous to 0; rays, pedicels few, spreading-ascending
Flower: calyx lobes 0 or minute; petals wide, white or greenish white; projection atop ovary sometimes flat
Fruit ovate-oblong to round, compressed side-to-side; ribs subequal, thread-like to obtuse and corky; oil tubes per rib-interval 1; fruit axis entire or notched at tip
Seed: face flat
Chromosomes: 2n=22
Species in genus: ± 20 species: generally s hemisphere (South America, s Africa, Australia, New Zealand), also Eurasia, 2 species weedy in CA
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Alt-folk singer Michelle Shocked incited a mass walk-out during her concert Sunday after launching into an anti-gay-marriage diatribe that incited a mass walkout, Yahoo! reports.
Shocked, who first broke out in 1988 with her debut album Short Sharp Shocked, is known for having largely liberal-leaning fans and was performing in the very LGBT-friendly San Francisco. Shocked performed one set without fuss before she began talking about the evils that would happen if California's Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage, is overturned by the courts. She cited verses from the Old Testament condemning homosexuality and encouraged the crowd to go on Twitter "and say 'Michelle Shocked says God hates f---.'"
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Shocked's performance, and subsequent rant, was cut short by the venue operator who said that, as a gay man, he could not allow the show to go on and told her to leave the stage. Hours after the incident, many fans went online and said they believe her career is done. At least eight venues have canceled scheduled Shocked performances in light of her remarks.
Her words came as a particular surprise since Shocked, 51, was identified as a lesbian for much of her career — although she has repeatedly denied the label. As recently as 2008, Shocked told the Dallas gay publication Edge, "I'm here to say not that homosexuality is wrong. I'm here to say that there is reconciliation through the blood of Jesus Christ for every human being on the face of this earth. And no one is entitled to speak on God's behalf and say who does and who doesn't have that right. Because that price was paid—purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ. ... Homosexuality is no more or less a sin than fornication. And I'm a fornicator with a capital F."
Shocked, who was married for 12 years to journalist Bart Bull, most recently made headlines in November 2011 when she was arrested during the eviction of the Occupy Los Angeles movement.


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Over 30 cans of marijuana were shot into Yuma via cannon, Customs and Border Protection officials said Tuesday.
Over 30 cans of marijuana were shot into Yuma, Ariz., using a cannon, Customs and Border Protection officials said Tuesday.
The suspicious cans were discovered near the Colorado River in Yuma on Friday.
Border Patrol agents said the discovery was "another unique but unsuccessful attempt" to smuggle drugs into the U.S.
An investigation of the area determined that the cans were fired from about 500 feet away with a pneumatic-powered cannon. A carbon-dioxide tank was found nearby.
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Mexican authorities were also looking into the incident.
The marijuana weighed 85 pounds and was valued at $42,500. It will be destroyed, according to a statement from the agency.
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In order for your cosmetics to truly stand out, it's important to have a flawless canvas. While even celebrities don't have perfectly clear skin (it's called airbrushing), you can fake it by covering up blemishes and imperfections and following these top three rules for applying concealer:
1. Use different colors. While you may be tempted to only use the color that best matches your skin tone, different hues have different purposes. For example, concealers with yellow undertones neutralize bluish under-eye circles, while a green base will cover up redness. A flesh-tone concealer is perfect for touch-ups.
2. Find the right lighting. If you're going to apply concealer, it's important that you find the proper lighting – otherwise you may accidentally end up looking more like a clown than the gorgeous girl you are! You should always apply concealer under natural light – stand near a window so you can really see what you're doing.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Election Day Rogues!
Above: New Zealand politicians reinterpreted as Batman's rogues gallery by Michel Mulipola. Copyright Michel Mulipola 2011.
Hi everyone, and welcome back to New Zealand's 85th most popular blog! (well according to this survey anyway...).
Apologies for the lack of content this month, I've been experiencing broadband difficulties...but now that everything is back up to speed, you can expect plenty of new updates and stories in the coming weeks!
In the meantime, it's Election Day here in NZ, and to celebrate it in comics style, local artist Michel Mulipola has reinterpreted some of our most recognised politicians as Batman villians! I'm particularly taken with Don Brash as Mr. Freeze...nicely played Michel. For a full explanation of his character choices, visit his deviantART page HERE.
Now lastly, if you're a NZ citizen, for the love of god get out there and VOTE!
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Morristown, New Jersey
Loyola House of Retreats is located on 30 acres of beautiful lawns, gardens and woodland in a quiet section of Morristown, N.J. Surrounded by rolling terrain and pathways through the trees, retreatants are invited to discover and deepen their relationships to God, Jesus and the Spirit, and to discover themselves through prayer, silence, reflection and rest.
Thousands of retreatants have paused to search, ask and wonder in this peaceful atmosphere since 1927. All are invited to come here to do the same — to sense God's presence in a fresh and contemplative way.
A place to be refreshed and renewed, Loyola operates as a Jesuit center for Christian men and women. Although the center is Catholic in the Ignatian tradition, Loyola welcomes men and women of all faiths to its silent contemplative space. All guest rooms are private and the facility is handicapped accessible. The center is staffed by Jesuit priests and lay men and women.
Loyola has a wide variety of offerings, based on the Spiritual Exercises, designed to meet people where they are now in their spiritual lives and moving them deeper as they are ready. All offerings lead to the full Spiritual Exercises as a person feels called. Many people have moved from the Loyola Program into action in the community: Just Faith, Christian Life Community, Jesuit Volunteers and Ignatian Volunteer Corps to name a few.
Loyola offers weekend, directed and private retreats as well as eight-day silent directed and preached retreats during Holy Week and the summer months. In addition, Loyola offers Days/Evenings of Prayer, Follow-up Mini Retreats, Retreats for Children and Teens, Ignatian Charis Retreats for Young Adults in their 20s and 30s, First Friday Mass, Custom Day Retreats for School Faculties, High School Confirmation Retreats, retreats for the Spanish speaking community and Spiritual Direction.
Loyola also offers retreats for those combatting homelessness and addiction (partnering with the Ignatian Spirituality Project based in Chicago) and those in recovery. The Spiritual Exercises are offered in its different forms: Full 30-day retreat; 19th Annotation (30-week at-home version meeting once per week individually); and group 30-week retreat (meeting once per week in a group). Outside groups are also welcome to come and use the center to host retreats of their own.


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The world's first smartphone with a full HD screen resolution is coming to China.
The Oppo manufacturer recently announced the Find 5 device, which the company says will boast a 5-inch screen at 1920 x 1080p.
That would give the Find 5 an Retina Display-trouncing 441 pixels per inch (the iPhone 5 has 326 pixels per inch).
Quad-core and more
The rest of the spec-set is also pretty impressive. Oppo cites 2GB of RAM, a Qualcomm quad-core 1.5GHz processor and a 12-megapixel camera.
It's also lists the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi a/b/g/n.
As Android Central points out, the spec list does sound a little too good to be true, and it's unlikely that it'll ever reach western shores anyway.
Still, it's interesting to see that some manufacturers are looking to push the boundaries of mobile screen technology.
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Aaron Butler said that after he told his 8-year-old son Evan that they were leaving the Scouts, "he sat on my lap and cried for 10 minutes."
The father of a Cub Scout sat his son on his lap late last week and told him news that tore up both their hearts: The family was leaving the Boy Scouts.
Aaron Butler, the leader of his 8-year-old son Evan's Cub Scout Wolf den in Roseau, Minn., said he didn't explain to his eldest son exactly why they were walking away from an organization they loved so much, but he told NBC News that it was because of last week's controversial decision by the Boy Scouts of America to allow gay youth to participate.
"It was a big disappointment ... he cried for about 10 minutes because I told him that the Boy Scouts were not honoring their own law," Butler said, referring to the BSA oath that he interpreted as barring gay people. "They say it -- 'On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep [myself] physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight,'" he said.
"If the BSA cannot honor their own law, then how can I stay with an organization that just does not care anymore?" he said.
As many Scouts and families rejoiced over the BSA's decision to partly end the membership guidelines that had drawn criticism from supporters of LGBT rights both inside and outside the organization, many others decried the move, with some BSA members making the tough choice to pull out of one of the nation's most popular youth organizations.
"I feel pretty bad about it," Evan told NBC News, noting he liked the camp-outs, and archery and slingshot activities he enjoyed in Pack 56. He said that he understood there was a vote that led to his parents' decision. He explained that he understood it as: "It was between honor and God, and not honoring God. And [not] honoring God got more votes."
"It was something that we all enjoyed, we loved every week of it," said Butler, 30, who works at a window and door manufacturer. "It's a shame that BSA had just caved like a deck of cards."
Caved, Butler said, to pressure from activists to let gay youth join the group. The vote was approved by 61 percent of the 1,232 National Council delegates who cast a ballot at the BSA's annual meeting one week ago (another 168 delegates -- or about 12 percent of the total delegates -- were not present to cast a ballot).
"There were divisions about how to serve kids," Tico Perez, the BSA national commissioner, said immediately after the vote. "If we have disagreement, if we have discomfort, we are going to talk through it. America needs Scouting."
"Our singular focus moving forward is serving more kids in Scouting, and we believe this resolution is going to do that," he added.
When asked about families saying they would leave over the decision, BSA President Wayne Perry said last week: "We think that on reflection that many of these people will decide that the best place for their kids is in Scouting."
A week on, BSA spokesman Deron Smith said the group couldn't yet quantify the impact of the amended policy. Most organizations that charter Scouting units were continuing with the program, but some had decided not to renew – in which case BSA executives would work with troop leadership to identify a suitable partner and ensure a smooth transition, he said.
"Our local council professionals and volunteers are reaching out to our all chartered partners to review the policy and answer questions they have," he wrote in an email. "We are finding that when people read the new policy they see it is reflective of the beliefs of most of Scouting's major religious chartered organizations."
Not so for Mike A. Miller, a union electrician in Mount Holly, N.C., who said he was pulling his 9-year-old son, Cody, out of the Cub Scouts and would step down as assistant den leader of Pack 45. Monday will be his son's advancement ceremony to Webelos – as far as he will go with the organization.
He said he talked to Cody before the vote – after it was announced in February – so it wouldn't be a one-time conversation.
"It was hard to explain to a 9-year-old the complexities of why I was telling him that we had to quit," Miller said. "He told me, 'Daddy, it should be like church. Everybody should be welcome.'"
Miller said he then told Cody that the point of going to church is to seek forgiveness — not for being all-inclusive.
"I said, 'These people aren't asking for your forgiveness,'" Miller, 51, told NBC News in a telephone interview. "What they're doing is saying, 'this is what I am and you have to accept me like I am. I'm not coming to try to change.'
"Be it right, wrong or indifferent, the Bible that I read says [homosexuality is] a sin," he said.
Miller said he and other families that would leave were talking about continuing some kind of program for the boys. He said he was going to look into an alternative faith-based group being put together by On My Honor — an organization started by a Florida dad and Scout volunteer, and composed of families and outside groups that oppose allowing gay youths and adults in the Boy Scouts.
As for adult leaders and volunteers, Boy Scouts officials last week said there would be no change to the adult membership policy, which excludes gays.
That means that after a boy turns 18, he would graduate from the Boy Scouts and have to apply to become an adult leader – when the membership policy barring gays would apply.
Gay rights activists pledged to continue their campaign to include adults even as they applauded the vote. They acknowledged there could be some attrition, but said the decision was the first step in the right direction for the organization.
"Even though I think that there will probably still be a few folks who choose to walk away … I think this is the beginning of the rebound of Scouting in America," Zach Wahls, founder of Scouts for Equality, said after the vote.
Back in Roseau, Aaron Butler lamented that his sons – he has a younger boy, 6-year-old Emmett – would not achieve the Boy Scouts' highest honor of being an Eagle Scout and all of the recognition that comes with it.
He said he had prayed weekly that the BSA "would stay straight." Now that the vote has come and gone, he and another den leader would plot the next activity for the boys, "because we have to fill that vacuum with something good."
"The Boy Scouts gave us a sense of pride. They have done so much for all these kids … they have made a lot of these kids full of integrity and that's what they teach – they did teach," he said.
If you are a current or former member of the Boy Scouts and would like to share your thoughts on how your troop, pack or council is handling the change in the membership policy, you can email the reporter at firstname.lastname@example.com. We may use some comments for a follow-up story, so please specify if your remarks can be used and provide your name, hometown, age, Boy Scout affiliation and a phone number.
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Country Faith was a beautiful designed devotional book that included a scripture verse from a popular country music artist, a personal story about why they choose that verse, and an artist photo. The book featured country artists like Rodney Atkins, Carrie Underwood, Eric Paslay, Josh Turner, Easton Corbin, Lee Brice, Wynonna, The Band Perry, Miranda Lambert, Alan Jackson, Darius Rucker, Lorrie Morgan, Hunter Hayes, Jimmy Wayne, Florida Georgia Line, Sara Evans, Brad Paisley, Trisha Yearwood, Danny Gokey, Lee Greenwood, Lauren Alaina, Kimberly Schlapman from Little Big Town, Randy Owen from Alabama, Scotty McCreery, Barbara Mandrell, Jamie O'Neal, Craig Morgan, Phil Vassar, Dustin Lynch, and many more. Some of the artists even revealed their personal insights into how a verse inspired a song. Many of the stories shared was about their music career and their faith in God. The back of the book also contained an Introduction to the Book of Mark.
I would recommend this astonishing vibrant devotional to every single country music fan and it is perfect for the country music lover. I was encouraged by the faith that was prevalent throughout the book and how the artist opened up about how their favorite Bible verse has impacted them. I especially liked Josh Turner, Dustin Lynch, Easton Corbin, Carrie Underwood, The Band Perry, and Miranda Lambert's stories and verses. I liked how Carrie Underwood presented Romans 38-39 and she reminded me of the importance of understanding that nothing can separate me from the love of Christ. No matter my mistakes and failures, God still loves me unconditionally. I also appreciated how Lorrie Morgan choose Psalm 23 to bring her comfort during difficult seasons and the deepest valleys of life. Some of her own was when she lost her father at 16 and her husband, Keith Whitley and God was her shepherd and light through the darkness. I loved how genuine The Band Perry was in stating that James 1:2-4 encouraged to keep perseverating through 12 years of struggling to make it in the music business. What if they would have quit long ago? They realized now that the long journey helped prepare them. It was refreshing to a number of my favorite artists included in this book and I really enjoyed reading this book and flipping through the amazing photos and seeing the different layouts of the pages. This would make a wonderful gift for the country music fans in your life. I highly recommend it!
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Former star Farmer joins Railers as assistant coach
By Justin Tierney
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[November 09, 2012]
Like anyone
else, Brandon Farmer usually isn't the biggest fan of Monday
But, this past Monday morning was different.
It was the first Monday morning as an assistant high school
basketball coach for the former Railer star, who has joined Neil
Alexander's coaching staff at LCHS this season.
Farmer insists that he was excited to be at Monday's 6 a.m.
season-opening practice.
Tuesday may have been a different story, though.
"I was telling coach (Eric) Ewald tonight, I was so excited the
first day when I got there, at 6 in the morning," said Farmer on
Thursday night. "Then the second day rolled around, and I was asking
myself, 'Do I really need to be here anymore?' I had forgotten how
bad those were.
"But it's been fun so far. I don't know exactly how to explain
it, but I really relate to these kids well. I've been through it. I
know where they're coming from. It's looking good so far. The kids
seem to know me and it's fun to interact with them."
Farmer arguably had one of the best high school careers of any
Railer in history.
He is 10th all-time on the school's career scoring list, with
1,285 points. He is also one of just four players in Central State
Eight conference history to win the Conference Player of the Year
award twice, winning in 2006 and 2007. During Farmer's senior
season, in 2007, the Railers set the school record for average
points allowed, surrendering just 38.9 points per game.
But, above all, Farmer was a winner. During his senior season,
the Railers set the program's record for wins, finishing with a 33-3
mark. During his four years on the varsity squad, from 2004-2007,
Lincoln had a combined record of 109-26. Farmer and teammates Matt
Schick, Ethan Neitzel and Jarod Buckles are the only Railers to ever
make two separate trips to the state tournament, advancing to the
Elite Eight in 2005 and 2007.
The winning didn't stop in high school. Farmer helped lead
Lincoln College to a third-place finish in the NJCAA national
tournament in 2009. After Lincoln College, Farmer concluded his
playing career at the University of Illinois Springfield, an NCAA
Division II school.
Alexander attributed much of Farmer's success as a player to his
ferocious competitiveness, a trait that Alexander hopes will rub off
on current players.
"Brandon was a pretty good player. But he made himself a whole
lot better because of his work ethic, how hard he played, the things
he did on the court," said Alexander. "Those ingredients are things
that have to be instilled in kids. We need somebody to do that. It's
not something that Brandon will have to work at too much, because
that's just what is in him. Hopefully that rubs off on our kids. If
it does, we could be pretty good."
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It isn't Farmer's first coaching job. He spent last year as an
assistant coach on Kirk Whiteman's staff at Lincoln College.
Farmer says he's noticed a difference right away between the
college and high school ranks.
"It's two different extremes … it's different kids, different
styles," said Farmer. "I think the biggest difference so far -- at
Lincoln College, the kids saw me more as a player, a friend. But the
high school kids see me more as a coach, not someone who would be
playing with them in practice."
Indeed, Farmer is no longer a player. He's a young adult now.
He recently got engaged to Courtnee Brown. Farmer and Brown met
through Whiteman, who is Brown's brother-in-law. Brown was also an
athlete at UIS, starring on the volleyball court for the Prairie
Farmer will be balancing his coaching duties with wedding
planning this winter.
"It'll be a little difficult. I'm sure Coach Al will need things,
Courtnee will need things," said Farmer, laughing. "But of course,
she comes first. Anything that needs to get done will get done. But,
she'll be there to support me. She'll understand. She'll be at the
games. She loves basketball."
Farmer says he can see himself on the Railer coaching staff for
an extended period. But, he also hasn't ruled out becoming a head
coach some day either.
"If I'm an assistant at a high school, there's no other place I
would rather be at," said Farmer. "If there were opportunities to be
a head coach, I would consider it. We'll see how this season goes,
and we'll see if I'd ever even want to be a head coach. I can see
myself being at Lincoln for a while if I decide to stay in coaching.
I'm sure enjoying it right now."
[By JUSTIN TIERNEY]
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Newest Cohn Restaurant Opens in Ocean Beach
Friday, August 8, 2014
San Diego-based Cohn Restaurant Group has opened its newest venue in Ocean Beach, called OB Warehouse at 4839 Newport Ave.
Officials said the 6,000-square-foot restaurant, on the second floor of the former Portugalia building, is a "casual global-cuisine eatery and bar" with an industrial-like atmosphere. It has repurposed elements including a 1965 Airstream trailer that serves a design feature, with a view into the restaurant's working kitchen.
The restaurant was designed by Philippe Beltran, who also designed Cohn's BO-beau kitchen + bar, 100 Wines and the recently remodeled Indigo Grill. The kitchen is led by Chef Amiko Gubbins, with cuisine that features Asian, Mediterranean, Moroccan and Middle Eastern elements.
The venue has communal seating, an expansive central bar and an outdoor patio, operators said.
Headquartered in Old Town and founded in 1982, Cohn Restaurant Group is led by David and Lesley Cohn and operates more than 20 restaurants in San Diego County and Hawaii. Officials said the company is working on a replacement concept for La Jolla Strip Club, a steak restaurant in University Towne Center that it recently closed.